by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | May 4, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam Question 1 I know you’re from the UK and have spent a lot of time in various countries overseas. Can you share a little bit about your experiences and key accomplishments in the United States? Answer 1 In 2003, I started working as Senior Research...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Mar 2, 2015 | Formative Assessment
Content, Then Process In professional development, the details matter. And process should always come after content. In previous blog posts, I’ve written a lot about the content of formative assessment; namely the five key strategies and associated practical...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Feb 3, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam Why I wrote my new book My latest book, written with Siobhán Leahy, is designed specifically to help individual teachers who want to develop their practice of formative assessment on their own or with small groups of colleagues. In this blog, I provide...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Jan 6, 2015 | Formative Assessment
By Dylan Wiliam What Dance Teachers Know At Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, a high school jazz dance class is in session. The teacher has organized the dancers so each student is partnered. When Alannah Miles starts belting out “Black Velvet” from the...
by LSI Dylan Wiliam Center | Nov 29, 2014 | Formative Assessment
In 38% of well-designed studies, feedback actually made performance worse—one of the most counterintuitive results in all of psychology. If there’s a single principle teachers need to digest about classroom feedback, it’s this: The only thing that matters is what...
